PAD-3003 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, Civil Service Reform Act Of 1978, Civil Service Retirement System
26 Apr 2016
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Andrew jackson implemented the spoils system to the bureaucracy: central to this was the belief that any individual was capable of executing. Simple tasks of public management which were though to be a matter of. Common sense : inefficiency, scandals, and profiteering was wide spread under the spoils system . Woodrow wilson: insisted on a politics-administration separation: separation between the determination, and implementation of a policy. Policy implementation- should be the realm of apolitical administrators only. Policy is an expression of state will through elected officials. Public administrators should execute that expression of state will in a professional, competent, and apolitical fashion. The pendleton civil service act of 1883: changed everything, created a bipartisan civil service commission. The predecessor of that system is currently responsible for 90% of. Critics on the pendleton service act of 1883 government employees: maintain that a significant price has been paid for this type of merit-based system.
